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24558

TELEGRAM TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET AND I. V. STALIN
PETROGRAD
JUNE 20, 1919

I request the immediate release from military service of twenty-six reserve officers from the State Paper Expedition and, in accordance with the latter's instructions, do not obstruct their departure for Moscow. Also bring to the attention of comrade Ivanov and others that the Expedition, as well as the Ohner plant, is being evacuated in accordance with an order from the Council of Defense, and therefore no one should create any obstacles to the evacuation of the designated workers, staff, as well as machinery and other equipment.

Chairman of the Council of Defense

Lenin

Printed
from the
original,
signed by
V. I. Lenin.

24587

TELEGRAM TO THE POLITBURO OF THE 26th FIELD CONSTRUCTION
KALUGA
JUNE 28, 1919

You must apply to the District Military Command. Moreover, according to information, the twenty-sixth construction is located on the Caucasus-Caspian Front. Send a more precise telegram.

Chairman of the Council of Defense

Lenin

Printed from the
original,
signed by
V. I. Lenin.

* In the telegram addressed to the Chairman of the Council of Defense, the politburo requested an order concerning the partial mobilization of carpenters in Kaluga for construction needs.

2 1825

TELEGRAM TO THE SARATOV PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
JULY 2, 1919

Saratov, Provincial Executive Committee

Copy to the Chief Commissar of the Ryazan-Urals Railway, Stepanov

The Council of Defense fully welcomes the decision concerning the organization of entrenchment work and requests its most energetic implementation, but in regard to absolutely essential railway workers, proposes to make withdrawals by agreement with the Chief Commissar of the Ryazan-Urals Railway, Stepanov.

Lenin

Printed from the
original,
signed by
V. I. Lenin.

4326

RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM REGARDING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE CITY OF BALASHOV
JULY 8, 1919

Comrade Podbelsky!

Attach your assessment of Balandin

Lenin

Moscow, Kremlin, Council of Defense
Copy to the Central Committee of the RCP

From Saratov. Urgent, out of turn. Balashov was retaken by us on the sixth at 12 o'clock noon. The enemy fled in panic without managing to evacuate anything—army warehouses. Balashov was again taken by us from the direction of Elani. From Pad Station they report artillery fire from the direction of Romanovka Station. Simultaneously we report: the head of the sanitary department of Saratov institutions and member of the Revolutionary War Council Balandin, sitting in Serdobsk, continue to sow panic and have ordered evacuation from Serdobsk to Penza. Stop both of them, as there are as yet no grounds for evacuation.

Chief of the Revolutionary Committee

Zenkovitch

Plenipotentiary to the Central Executive Committee

Yaroslavsky